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Presidential Powers in Postcolonial Africa Deserve Historical Attention 后殖民时代非洲的总统权力值得历史关注
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-05-02 DOI: 10.1017/hia.2021.18
Anaïs Angelo
Abstract African presidential powers fascinate: they have not only been extensively studied by political scientists, but they have also inspired novelists and filmmakers as much as they continue to attract the attention of journalists. Historians, however, have for a long time been rather disinterested in the issue. And yet, a question remains: upon independence, why did almost all African states adopt a presidential system of rule? This article reflects on the methodology and new questions a historical approach entails for the study of presidential powers in African postcolonial states. This article argues for the need to trace the origins of presidential powers, to depart from narratives of colonial legacies and exaggerated archetypes of African presidents, and to open new avenues for the conceptualization of both the decolonization process and the formation of postcolonial states in Africa.
抽象的非洲总统权力令人着迷:他们不仅被政治学家广泛研究,而且还激发了小说家和电影制片人的灵感,并继续吸引着记者的注意。然而,历史学家长期以来对这个问题相当不感兴趣。然而,一个问题仍然存在:在独立后,为什么几乎所有的非洲国家都采用总统制统治?这篇文章反映了研究非洲后殖民国家总统权力的方法和历史方法所带来的新问题。本文认为有必要追溯总统权力的起源,远离殖民遗产的叙述和夸大非洲总统的原型,并为非洲非殖民化进程和后殖民国家形成的概念化开辟新的途径。
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Leza, Sungu, and Samba: Digital Humanities and Early Bantu History Leza、Sungu和Samba:数字人文与班图早期历史
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/hia.2021.13
Catherine Cymone Fourshey, Rhonda M. Gonzales, Christine Saidi
Abstract In 2016, with the support of a three-year National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant to research and write a precolonial African history of family, generations, and gender, we began building the Bantu Ancestral Roots Database (BARD). BARD is a digital repository of word-roots related to gender and life stage practices from over sixty Bantu languages. We developed it to assist us in our analysis of this large corpus of data that we used to write histories of people’s material and ideological inventions that cover the longue durée across multiple regions. BARD allows researchers with internet access to search for terms by entering at least three consecutive phonemes. If phonemes exist in that sequence in any of the 64 Bantu languages that BARD holds, those words and their meanings appear as results. In this article, we discuss the usefulness and complexities of Digital Humanities (DH) as research tools. We explain our methodology and research process using three reconstructed word-roots pertinent to our research on family and generations. The three word-roots we examine invite scholars to probe how to recover deep connections and linkages between people’s pasts in Africa and its Diasporas, particularly in ways that move beyond histories of the slave trade and enslavement. As we developed our open-access website African Social History and Data Across Bantu Matrilineal Communities (ASH-DABMC) and our database, BARD, we gained greater insight into the meanings encoded in our data even as we faced challenges. We hope the discussion of our experiences will provide an intellectual framework and inspire others considering digital projects.
2016年,在为期三年的国家人文基金会(NEH)合作研究基金的支持下,我们开始建立班图人祖根数据库(BARD),该基金旨在研究和撰写殖民前非洲的家庭、代际和性别历史。BARD是一个来自60多种班图语言的与性别和生活阶段实践相关的词根的数字资源库。我们开发它是为了帮助我们分析这个庞大的数据语料库,我们用它来写人类物质和意识形态发明的历史,这些发明涵盖了跨越多个地区的漫长时期。BARD允许有互联网接入的研究人员通过输入至少三个连续的音素来搜索术语。如果音素在BARD保存的64种班图语中的任何一种语言中以该序列存在,则这些单词及其含义将作为结果显示。在本文中,我们讨论了数字人文学科(DH)作为研究工具的实用性和复杂性。我们用三个重建的词根来解释我们的研究方法和研究过程,这些词根与我们对家庭和世代的研究有关。我们研究的三个词根邀请学者们探索如何恢复非洲人民的过去与其散居者之间的深层联系和联系,特别是以超越奴隶贸易和奴役历史的方式。当我们开发开放访问网站非洲社会历史和跨班图母系社区的数据(ASH-DABMC)和我们的数据库BARD时,我们对数据中编码的含义有了更深入的了解,即使我们面临挑战。我们希望我们的经验的讨论将提供一个智力框架,并激励其他人考虑数字项目。
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Handwritten in Lagos: Selfhood and Textuality in Colonial Petitions 拉各斯手写:殖民请愿书中的自我和文本性
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/hia.2021.4
Tunde Decker
Abstract This paper asks a methodological question: In what way can petitions written in the colonial period introduce us to the persona of the writers – that is, as against mainstream interpretation given to them as mere archival sources? Doesn’t the very nature of the petitions introduce us to the selfhood of those “caught up” in the often-mentioned “sophisticated” concepts of nationalism, politics, power, imperialism, urbanity, and colonialism? What, and how, do petitions tell us about the “interior version” of colonial society as seen in the individual? In an attempt at a deeper understanding of colonial Lagos, this paper examines an alternative feature of petitions as entry into the selfhood of colonial subjects rather than mainstream interpretations of the documents as qualitative exposition to “grand” historical phenomena. Selfhood as examined here is presented as it was constructed by petitions written in Lagos between 1940 and 1960 with a particular focus on three. Their deficiencies in “standards of grammar” notwithstanding, the words are also examined to allow for a demonstration of their qualities as texts: their meanings in singular and collaborative contexts, the gaps they exposed, the information they concealed, the disconnections in chronology they indicated, the “ethics” of grammar they “relegated” for more “substantial expose” of the self, the information they privileged the reader to hear, the identity they formed in the personas they constructed and the voice they generated. This paper suggests that these strands analyzed together affirm the textuality of petitions written by everyday people in colonial Lagos and that these point to the potentiality of such documents to further contribute to the substantial comprehension of the inner qualities of self-identity in Lagos and Nigeria’s colonial history.
摘要本文提出了一个方法论问题:殖民时期写的请愿书以什么方式向我们介绍作家的个性——也就是说,相对于仅仅作为档案来源的主流解释?请愿书的本质难道不让我们了解那些“陷入”经常被提及的民族主义、政治、权力、帝国主义、城市化和殖民主义“复杂”概念的人的自我吗?请愿书告诉我们,在个人身上看到的殖民社会的“内部版本”是什么,以及如何告诉我们的?为了更深入地理解殖民地拉各斯,本文考察了请愿书的另一个特征,即进入殖民主体的自我状态,而不是将文件的主流解释作为对“宏大”历史现象的定性阐述。这里所考察的自我是由1940年至1960年间在拉各斯写的请愿书构建的,特别关注三个方面。尽管它们在“语法标准”方面存在缺陷,但也对这些单词进行了检查,以展示它们作为文本的品质:它们在单数和协作上下文中的含义、它们暴露出的差距、它们隐藏的信息、它们所表示的年表中的脱节,他们“贬低”语法的“伦理”,以更“实质性地暴露”自我,他们让读者听到的信息,他们在构建的人物角色中形成的身份,以及他们产生的声音。本文认为,这些共同分析的线索肯定了拉各斯殖民地普通人写的请愿书的文本性,并指出这些文件有可能进一步有助于深入理解拉各斯和尼日利亚殖民历史中自我认同的内在品质。
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HIA volume 48 Cover and Front matter HIA第48卷封面和封面问题
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/hia.2022.1
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The Records of the Human Sciences Research Council 人文科学研究委员会记录
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/hia.2021.15
Brown Maaba
Abstract The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) is South Africa’s foremost non-teaching social science research body. In this paper, the author gives an overview of its records, recently uncovered in the institution’s building in Pretoria. To academics, policy makers, and all those interested in South Africa’s intellectual and institutional history, these records are important in seeking to understanding the HSRC itself and other apartheid institutions. In addition, exploration of its history can, amongst other things, help to shape policy in liberated South Africa towards higher educational and research institutions in the light of their historical legacy of apartheid and segregation. The author cautions that, as researchers embark upon exploring the history of the HSRC, they should avoid romanticizing it but rather confront its nuances and challenges head on.
人文科学研究委员会(HSRC)是南非最重要的非教学社会科学研究机构。在这篇论文中,作者概述了该机构最近在比勒陀利亚的大楼中发现的记录。对于学者、政策制定者以及所有对南非知识和制度史感兴趣的人来说,这些记录对于理解HSRC本身和其他种族隔离制度非常重要。此外,根据南非种族隔离和种族隔离的历史遗留问题,探索其历史有助于制定解放后的南非对高等教育和研究机构的政策。作者警告说,当研究人员开始探索HSRC的历史时,他们应该避免将其浪漫化,而是直面其细微差别和挑战。
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Naming the Baga: Problems in the Identity of a Guinean Cultural Amalgamation 巴加的命名:几内亚文化融合认同中的问题
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/hia.2021.7
F. Lamp
Abstract Along the coast of the Republic of Guinea, the term “Baga” has been used to cover a large amalgamation of cultural groups, always previously misinterpreted. There are five dialect groups called Baga within the Temne language group. The question raised here concerns the etymology of the name Baga, as it has evolved in juxtaposition to the name Temne in Sierra Leone. It is an attempt to parse the intricate use of language to describe the historical and hierarchical relationship between these two segments of the same group.
摘要在几内亚共和国海岸,“巴加”一词被用来涵盖文化群体的大规模融合,以前总是被误解。泰姆内语群中有五个方言群,称为巴加语。这里提出的问题涉及Baga这个名字的词源,因为它在塞拉利昂与Temne这个名字并列发展。它试图解析语言的复杂使用,以描述同一群体中这两个部分之间的历史和等级关系。
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The Usambara Knowledge Project: Place as Archive in a Tanzanian Mountain Range 乌桑巴拉知识项目:作为坦桑尼亚山脉的档案馆
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/hia.2021.11
Christopher A. Conte
Abstract The essay chronicles the early phases of a digital history project on landscape change in the mountains of eastern Tanzania. In collecting sources for a land and culture narrative, the project aims ultimately to create an archive that is locally produced in Tanzania and maintained by Utah State University Library’s Special Collections and Archives division. The project draws on more than thirty early twentieth-century landscape photographs from the Usambara Mountains in northeastern Tanzania by Walther Dobbertin, a professional photographer living in German East Africa. In the fall of 2015, team members scouted the sites for repeat photographs. The following summer, the project team began repeat photography and expanded the range of local collaborators to develop an oral history collection tied to the region’s landscape history. The essay lays out the problems, pitfalls, and successes of the preliminary collaborative work among academics, university students, archival specialists, and elders’ groups intent on collecting and preserving knowledge.
摘要本文记录了坦桑尼亚东部山区景观变化数字历史项目的早期阶段。在收集土地和文化叙事的来源时,该项目的最终目标是创建一个在坦桑尼亚当地制作的档案,由犹他州立大学图书馆的特别收藏和档案部门维护。该项目借鉴了居住在德属东非的专业摄影师沃尔瑟·多伯坦在坦桑尼亚东北部乌桑巴拉山脉拍摄的30多张20世纪初的风景照片。2015年秋天,团队成员在这些地点搜寻重复的照片。第二年夏天,项目团队开始重复拍摄,并扩大了当地合作者的范围,以开发与该地区景观历史相关的口述历史收藏。本文阐述了学术界、大学生、档案专家和致力于收集和保存知识的老年人团体之间初步合作工作的问题、陷阱和成功之处。
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The Lingeer’s Jihad: Challenging a Male-Normative Reading of African History 流浪者的圣战:挑战男性对非洲历史的规范解读
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/hia.2021.10
Douglas H. Thomas
Abstract This article is a retelling of the Sharr Bubba Jihad as it unfolded in Kajoor (present-day Senegal) in which I attempt to set aright an instance of ontological violence in the existing secondary literature. I attempt to correct this first through an exposition of how the prevailing academic history is complicit in the continual colonization of African history. Secondly, I explain how Eurocentric discourses relegate African women to ancillary bearers of children, hewers of wood, and drawers of water. I further explain that the relationships between gender and authority in African histories do not align with the European “template” explaining the position and role of lingeer. Thirdly, I give the details of the Sharr Bubba Jihad in Kajoor through a rereading of the sources, making sure to name Lingeer Yacine Bubu, and contextualizing the role of the lingeer in Kajoor and the other Senegambian kingdoms.
摘要这篇文章是对Sharr Bubba圣战在Kajoor(今塞内加尔)展开的复述,我试图在现有的二级文学中树立一个本体论暴力的例子。我首先试图通过阐述主流学术史如何与非洲历史的持续殖民化串通一气来纠正这一点。其次,我解释了以欧洲为中心的话语是如何将非洲妇女贬为孩子的辅助搬运工、伐木工人和挑水工的。我进一步解释说,非洲历史上性别和权威之间的关系与欧洲解释林格立场和作用的“模板”不一致。第三,我通过重读资料来源,详细介绍了卡约尔的沙尔·布巴圣战,确保将林格尔命名为亚辛·布布,并将林格尔在卡约尔和其他塞内加尔王国中的角色置于背景中。
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Editors’ Introduction: “The Future of the African Past” 编辑简介:“非洲过去的未来”
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/hia.2021.21
Lorelle Semley, T. Barnes, Bayo Holsey, Egodi Uchendu
We signed on as the new editorial team of History in Africa (HIA) without knowing that we all sat on the precipice of tumultuous times. After over a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global unrest calling for a reckoning on racial justice, and events that exposed the limits and fragility of democratic institutions, we are reminded of the importance of how people experience, remember, and chronicle the past. It is a weighty and fortuitous time to think about our craft as historians and how we develop methods for analyzing and revisiting sources. How do we want to highlight our unique approaches as historians of Africa, and how do we want to push our field of African history and our discipline of history, more broadly, in new directions? We salute and thank the previous team of HIA editors – Jan Jansen, Michel Doortmont, John Hanson, and Dmitri van den Bersselaar – for their excellent stewardship of the journal over many years.
我们签约成为《非洲历史》(HIA)的新编辑团队,却不知道我们都坐在动荡时代的悬崖上。在经历了一年多的新冠肺炎大流行、要求对种族正义进行清算的全球动荡以及暴露民主体制局限性和脆弱性的事件之后,我们被提醒人们如何体验、记忆和记录过去的重要性。这是一个沉重而偶然的时刻,让我们思考我们作为历史学家的技艺,以及我们如何开发分析和重新审视来源的方法。作为非洲历史学家,我们想如何强调我们的独特方法,以及我们想如何将我们的非洲历史领域和我们的历史学科更广泛地推向新的方向?我们向之前的HIA编辑团队——Jan Jansen、Michel Doortmont、John Hanson和Dmitri van den Bersselaar——致敬并感谢他们多年来对该杂志的出色管理。
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Archives of Idi Amin 伊迪·阿明档案
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/hia.2021.8
Edgar C. Taylor, N. Abiti, D. Peterson, R. Vokes
Abstract This report describes the official photographic archives of Idi Amin’s government held by the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC). During his reign from 1971 to 1979, Idi Amin embraced visual media as a tool for archiving the achievements of populist military rule as his government sought to reorient Ugandans’ relationship with the state. Only a handful of the resulting images were ever printed or seen, reflecting the regime’s archival impulse undergirded by paranoia of unauthorized ways of seeing. The UBC’s newly opened collection of over 60,000 negatives from Amin’s photographers, alongside files at the Uganda National Archives, offers the first comprehensive opportunity to study the Ugandan state under Amin’s dictatorship through the lens of its own documentarians.
本报告描述了由乌干达广播公司(UBC)持有的伊迪·阿明政府的官方摄影档案。在1971年至1979年执政期间,伊迪·阿明(Idi Amin)将视觉媒体作为记录民粹主义军事统治成就的工具,他的政府试图重新定位乌干达人与国家的关系。最终得到的图像只有少数被印刷出来或被看到,这反映了朝鲜政权对档案的冲动,以及对未经授权的观看方式的偏执。UBC新开放的6万多张阿明摄影师的底片,以及乌干达国家档案馆的文件,提供了第一个全面的机会,通过自己的纪录片来研究阿明独裁统治下的乌干达国家。
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